Andrea Ling
Andrea Ling is an interdisciplinary artist (director, writer, dramaturg & practitioner) who advocates for social change and connection through art. Her work falls within theatre, installation, film and visual arts. Andrea was a recent recipient of the Jerwood Live Work award, 2020. Currently her practice explores de-colonial approaches to environmentalism developing co-created/ co-curated art projects […]
Carys D. Coburn
Carys D. Coburn is a trans writer from Dublin. Their work is political, playful, funny, angry, strange. They were the winner of the Verity Bargate Award 2017 for Citysong — co-produced by Soho Theatre, the Abbey Theatre, and Galway International Arts Festival. Other plays include Absent The Wrong (Best Production at Dublin Fringe 2022) and […]
Laura Edwards
Laura Edwards is the artistic director of Loop Theatre an inclusive physical theatre company who present devised site-specific and street theatre. A huge focus of Loops work is community-based, empowering participants to make bold choices and feel comfortable in their own skin and to allow themselves to see and be seen. Prior to founding Loop […]
Amy Conway
Amy Conway is a Theatre Maker, Actor, Facilitator, Playwright, Director, Clown and Civil Celebrant based in Glasgow who experiments with form and collaborates with a variety of interdisciplinary theatre makers and community groups. She is an Associate Director at Loop Theatre, who make inclusive performance work with learning disabled adults. As a theatre maker, Amy’s […]
Vittoria Cafolla
Vittoria’s latest play is with Kabosh, exploring the experiences of female combatants in the FARC & the Troubles in NI. This was produced in late Spring 2021 online and returns to the Lyric theatre & tours Ireland in June 2022. In December 2020 she was selected to be part of the Abbey Theatre’s Engine Room […]
Rachel Briscoe
Rachel Briscoe is co-founder lead artist for digital story studio Fast Familiar. Fast Familiar make artworks which are participatory, playful and political. We are an award-winning interdisciplinary collaboration comprising expertise in theatre, game design, digital technology and neuroscience and psychology. For us, art is a space to explore questions which are too complex for daily […]
Melanie Hering
Melanie Hering is a London based drama and creative writing facilitator. She loves making art with people and hearing their stories. Generating frameworks that have the flexibility to be adapted to the individual needs and wishes of the people she works with is central to her practice. She likes building things collaboratively with curiosity, and […]
Toria Banks
Toria Banks is a disabled writer, director and dramaturg. In 2018, she co-founded Hera to make inclusive music theatre by gender-minoritised artists, with Linda Hirst and Simone Ibbett-Brown. In 2021 she made ‘We Ask These Questions of Everybody’ with composer Amble Skuse: a digital opera commissioned by Sound Festival and made remotely by an all-disabled team […]
Laurie Motherwell
Laurie Motherwell is a playwright from Glasgow. During his residency at Cove Park he will be working on his play I Very very Love Caramel Bar, written as part of his New Playwright’s Award with Playwright’s Studio, Scotland. This is a personal work that explores how transnational relationships between middle aged men and younger women […]
Youth Arts Bursary Programme 2022
Pamela Carter
Pamela Carter is a writer for performance, director and dramaturg based in London. She has been making work in theatre, opera, dance, and the visual arts for over twenty years. During her residency at Cove Park she will work on two plays: about the digital promise of ever-lasting life; and about colonialism and interracial relationships set […]
Ruth Paton
Ruth Paton is a set, costume and puppet designer working in opera and with a particular focus on participatory practice and engagement. She is Associate Artist at Blind Summit Theatre and Lead Education Artist for the English National Opera, Garsington Opera and the Royal Opera House. Ruth holds a lectureship in theatre design at the […]